Books like Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar Hopkins, a nervous young Anglican priest with a gambling habit, and Lucinda Leplastrier, an Australian heiress who has bought a glassworks, meet on a ship bound for Sydney in the 1860s.
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Jack Maggs
In 1837, Jack Maggs, a convict transported to Australia, comes back secretly to London to find the young gentleman he has paid for, and is studied by Tobias Oates, an ambitious young writer.
Noli Me Tángere
Crisostomo Ibarra comes home to Manila after seven years studying in Europe to find that his father has died in prison, and that the friars of his town are set against him.
Bring Larks and Heroes
Corporal Phelim Halloran, an Irish marine in the penal colony of New South Wales in the late eighteenth century, loves a convict servant girl and is drawn into a plot by Irish convicts.
Voss
In Sydney in 1845, Johann Ulrich Voss, a German explorer preparing to cross the continent, meets Laura Trevelyan, the merchant's niece who understands him as no one else does.
That Deadman Dance
In the early nineteenth century on the south coast of Western Australia, Bobby Wabalanginy, a young Noongar man, welcomes the first white settlers and whalers, at first as friends.
The Betrothed
Two Lombardy peasants are prevented from marrying by a local tyrant and spend the novel finding each other again across plague, war, and the politics of 17th-century northern Italy.
Bliss
Harry Joy, an advertising man in an Australian city, is dead for nine minutes after a heart attack, and when he comes back he decides he is in Hell.
The French Lieutenant's Woman
A Victorian gentleman falls for a mysterious woman who walks the Lyme Regis shore, and the novel offers multiple endings to challenge the reader's assumptions about fate.
A Fringe of Leaves
In 1836, Ellen Roxburgh, a Cornish farm girl married into the English gentry, is shipwrecked off the Queensland coast and taken in by an Aboriginal tribe.
The Fraud
The housekeeper and cousin-in-law of a fading Victorian novelist becomes obsessed with the Tichborne trial, where a butcher claims to be a lost aristocrat and a formerly enslaved man testifies for him.
Rites of Passage
Near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Edmund Talbot, a young gentleman sailing to Australia to take up a colonial post, keeps a journal of the voyage for his godfather, and of a timid clergyman who becomes the butt of the ship.
The Heretic of Soana
A young priest in the mountains above Lake Lugano is sent to deal with a family of outcasts living in sin on the slopes of Monte Generoso, and is undone by the eldest daughter.